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| Young guns give a lesson |
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| 12/05/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Radio taxis finally on road |
The radio taxi service finally become operational in Chandigarh with UT advisor Lalit Sharma flagging off the air-conditioned cabs from Rock Garden on Thursday. The advisor also launched the tourist guide service on the occasion.
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| Mumbai gears up to drive India’s first car pool |
Mumbai’s citizens will soon be India’s first commuter group to shift gears from whining about traffic and pollution to driving a sensible eco-friendly campaign.
The country’s pioneering car pool system is likely to be launched early next month in the city.
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| SE Asian nations urged to improve road safety |
Experts have urged Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries to promote road safety and strictly enforce traffic laws to cut high death tolls from accidents, which result in heavy economic losses. Barry Cable, director of the transport and tourism division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap), said Southeast Asian governments must do more in the areas of children's education and public awareness to increase safety. He made the statement during a week-long meeting on the development of the Asian Highway Network, which began on Wednesday.
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| Teen drivers surveyed on safety |
Christian Gonzales says he always wears his seat belt when he drives — mostly because he doesn't want a ticket, which would cost $101. But after taking a survey and watching three public service announcements about seat belt use Wednesday, he now has other reasons.
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| Traffic safety campaign targets pickups |
State transportation officials and law enforcement from Lee County are announcing a traffic safety campaign today aimed to curb deaths and injuries in pickups.
The 2006 Buckle Up In Your Truck campaign will run through May 13 across eight states in the Southeast. |
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| Mohali SP suggests community policing to check thefts in city |
MOHALI Police today called a meeting of various social welfare organisations of Mohali at the Truck Union in Phase-VI where the police also prepared a documentary on the concept of community policing.
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| Bangalore welcomes metro decision |
Authorities in India's technology hub Bangalore have welcomed the central government's decision to approve a new metro system.
The rail network, due to be ready by 2011, is aimed at clearing traffic in one of Asia's fastest growing cities.
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| 30/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| How long to keep driving? |
| BY 2030, America will be home to 62 million baby boomers between the ages of 65 and 84, and most will still want their driving privileges. That underscores a key goal of traffic groups seeking national standards to assess how fit elderly motorists are to drive as they cope with the effects of aging. |
| 27/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Alcohol in most single-vehicle deaths |
| Over 90 per cent of single-vehicle accidents in Ireland may be alcohol-related, researchers at University College Dublin have found. In addition, men are more likely to be victims of single-vehicle fatal collisions and are much more likely to have alcohol in their system at the time of death. |
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| Roads sector experience is a mixed bag: miles to go... |
| The economic and development chatterati have had close to a decade of conversation fodder on the country’s road programme. From lavish praise (while addressing foreign investors) to outright condemnation (while driving past Mahipalpur to the international airport in Delhi), the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) has been receiving the attention a bride gets on her wedding day. |
| 27/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Hospitals should not turn away accident victims: former judge |
The citation reads: "... he rushed the accident victims to the nearby reputed hospital situated at JJ Nagar, Mogappair." Unfortunately, the duty doctor "advised" PK Sagar, who went out of his way to help three accident victims last year, to take the injured to another hospital.
The experience of Mr. Sagar, who received the `Ravindran Memorial Good Samaritan Award' from the Automobile Association of Southern India (AASI) on Thursday, prompted former judge of the Supreme Court S. Mohan to urge all hospitals not to turn away accident victims.
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| 23/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Driving schools give rules the go-by |
Mug up the signals in the backseat, put your hand out after 20 sessions and you have the licence to drive.
This is the routine followed by most city driving schools that do not even bother to keep a track of their students, say officials and traffic managers.
Last month, the Transport department pulled up four of the 129 driving schools in Chennai city area for not maintaining logbooks.
"They did not even have details about when the applicant had joined the school," says a senior official.
A decision on suspension of their permits would be taken after a detailed enquiry, he said.
However, the problems are not confined to logbooks.
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| 23/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Traffic problems threaten Middle East's high-flyers |
The high-rolling lifestyle of executives in the region’s ever-expanding cities could be threatened unless governments act now to alleviate traffic problems.
Rocketing car sales across the Middle East have hugely increased congestion and diminished road safety to the point that the reputation of places like Dubai as an efficient business platform could be damaged.
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| 14/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Stop, look, listen, learn |
Children in greater Sacramento are learning pedestrian safety one step at a time.
In some cases, they are doing so under police supervision - by moving through a portable, mock mini-city that visits area schoolyards.
Cesar Benavides, 8, looked all around him as he stood on a corner in the tiny "safe city" during its recent stop at Edward Kemble Elementary School in south Sacramento.
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| Greater role of states in roads sector sought |
Increased participation of state governments is envisaged in the highways sector, as part of the Centre’s initiative to accelerate growth and attract greater investment.
LK Joshi, secretary, ministry of roads and highways, while addressing the Essar India Today summit, said that phase IV of the National Highway Development Project (NHDP), would require active involvement of state governments, as this phase involves two laning of 20,000 km of roads.
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| Order "needed" to enforce helmet rule: neurosurgeon |
Statistics show 71.4 per cent of head trauma victims are two-wheeler riders and below 40 years "Motor Vehicles Act already has a provision"
HEADED FOR TROUBLE?: In spite of awareness campaigns and neurological evidence that head injuries involving two-wheelers can impair riders for life, very few wear helmet. - Neurosurgeon K. Ganapathy
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| 11/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Bang-aloreans go in for earplugs |
The IT city is truly becoming a city city 'bang bang', thanks to the din created by construction and traffic. For Bangaloreans, the message is 'loud' and clear: Go in for earplugs. And that is precisely what they are doing.
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| 11/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Parking pangs |
| A swanky Hyundai Sonata but no place to park? Or, a three-car household, and the daily scramble for parking space? Worse still, an ugly spat with a neighbour over parking space? Well, if you’re living in one of India’s metro cities, this must sound quite familiar. Indeed, why only Indian metros—most megalopolises around the world are grappling with parking problems and congestion on their roads. So, the parking policy recently cleared by the Delhi government for the Capital is one that we can say was long overdue. The policy envisages development of multi-level parking and increase in ad valorem tax on luxury vehicles, among other things. |
| 09/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| R1m road plan puts safety first for SA public |
A R1-million road safety plan initiated by the eThekwini Transport Authority has put Durban in pole position in the race to make South African roads safer, particularly for pedestrians.
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| Kyocera Wireless and International Road Dynamics Launch M2M Security System to Safeguard Vehicles Transporting Nuclear Materials |
Kyocera Wireless Corp., a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless handsets and devices, and International Road Dynamics (IRD), a leading intelligent transportation systems technology provider, today announced their collaboration on IRD's Active Nuclear Source Tool Alarm. The new radiation tampering alarm system integrates the award-winning Kyocera 200 Module for real time, CDMA wireless communications and safeguards vehicles carrying hazardous nuclear materials. The innovative alarm system satisfies new requirements of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the safe transport of radioactive source materials. The solution has been approved for use with the largest CDMA carriers in North America as well as multiple regional carriers across the United States and Canada.
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| 09/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Traffic Safety Includes Pedestrians Too |
Texans love their vehicles but more and more residents of the Lone Star State are parking their cars and lacing up their walking shoes, said experts from Texas Cooperative Extension.
Last year, 22,264 walkers took part in Extension's Walk Across Texas program, pacing out more than 5.2 million miles, said Terri Miller, director of Extension's Safe Communities project.
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| 07/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| SA drivers among world's most 'aggressive' |
South African drivers were among the world's worst when it came to road rage and aggressive and threatening driving behaviour, the eighth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion heard at the International Convention Centre in Durban on Monday.
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| 07/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| A driving force for safety |
If anyone has seen it all when it comes to good and bad driving, it’s retired Langley RCMP Sgt. Wayne Treleaven.
The local resident has spent most of his 35 years on the force working in Langley’s traffic section, investigating hundreds of crashes over that time.
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| 07/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| An eye on vision |
Mahavir Singh, deputy commissioner, Delhi Traffic Police, has been successful in getting corporate support for a routine exercise, which is conducted by his department.
Bausch & Lomb recently organised an eye-screening camp for commercial vehicle drivers in association with the Delhi Traffic Police. A large number of commercial vehicle drivers underwent tests for vision fit for driving. The drivers, comprising blueline, lorry and truck drivers, underwent a thorough test which involved testing for eye conditions such as perfect vision, colour blindness and other disorders. The Delhi traffic police personnel also underwent tests for good vision during the programme.
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| 04/04/2006 | Read More.. |
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| Abu Dhabi Declaration on Traffic Safety in 3 months |
The international organisation for Prevention of Road Accidents will issue the Abu Dhabi Declaration on Traffic Safety within the next three months.
The declaration will outline the global strategy on the issue for the next four years. It will include the recommendations spelled out at the 10th International Congress for Traffic Safety, which concluded at the Emirates Palace here last Wednesday.
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| Grad student judges walkability of cities |
As such cities grow more congested with cars, changes are often made at the expense of pedestrians, even though walking is the most common means of transportation in developing countries, Krambeck said. She cited the example of New Delhi, India, which recently created a number of new roads without creating new space for walkers.
A dual master's degree candidate in city planning and in science and transportation, Krambeck studied walkability as part of a two-year internship with the World Bank. The work eventually became her master's thesis, which she completed in February.
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| SAE showcases vehicle safety |
Motorists still can't propel their vehicles in the air to avoid collisions like the cartoon character George Jetson could with his flying car, but new safety advances are allowing cars and light trucks to dodge crashes in other ways.
And what sound like out-of-this-world safety features once dreamed up by Hollywood animators may not be far off.
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| Road debris can be deadly obstacle |
Most Houston motorists have had to make sometimes-harrowing maneuvers to avoid objects that have fallen out of truck beds. And tire shreds, those scaly-looking "road gators," pose a special hazard for motorcyclists.
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| Zicom surveillance system for Mumbai |
Next time you think of jumping the signal, think again. Your friendly neighbourhood traffic cop sitting at a distant control room may be watching you through a remotely managed video surveillance system.
City-based electronic security systems manufacturer Zicom Electronic Security Systems has bagged an order for setting up Mumbai traffic surveillance system.
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